So we're left with a first-world problem for the haves, and aggravated resentment for the have-nots.
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America is the only first-world country that doesn't have a mandatory paid family leave policy.
Winter is currently working with product design firm Continuum on a version of the LFC for the first-world.
The Society of Civil Engineers ( Failure to Act Studies) gives its price tag for restoring a first-world infrastructure.
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It has an excellent central bank, run by the capable Tito Mboweni, decent transport and a first-world legal system.
Winter is currently working with design consultancy firm Continuum on a version of the LFC for the first-world.
And, until recently, its roadways, airports and hotels simply couldn't support large numbers of visitors accustomed to first-world amenities.
Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.
Any concern about these two players is baseball's version of a first-world problem.
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Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project.
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So tight is the labour market that the economy of western Wyoming is suffering a first-world version of the resource curse.
The assertion by a handful of first-world biotech companies of property claims over my body is a repellent reminder of slavery.
Ireland is a first-world country, but one whose history of conflict and sectarian violence is only a few years in the past.
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From its founding in the 1880s it was an entrepreneurial town, living first off the Alaska gold rush, then first-world-war shipbuilding, then Boeing's airliners.
As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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Oil is stored in first-world depots, water in concrete pits.
"I think in Africa, mobile TV has a better chance of succeeding than in first-world countries, " DSTV Mobile chief executive Francois Theron told CNN before the ruling was announced.
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However, as the first-world shifts more and more positions overseas, and post-secondary enrollments continues to climb year after year, the laws of supply and demand are pointing to the contrary.
Poor countries now have easier access to first-world technology.
He loved chemistry with a passion, and had done so ever since, as a teenager in Poland, he had tipped the powder out of first-world-war artillery shells and made it into fireworks.
Now consider the potential size of a first-world economy in much of China--with sufficient openness and rule of law--plus the likely international links as its membership in the World Trade Organization kicks in.
Unless these are deceived, Cuba's infant mortality is 7.1 per thousand, its average life-expectancy 75 years: first-world figures which suggest that, under whatever strain, its preventive and primary health-care system is still performing well.
Clean renewables can meet at least 99% of our energy needs (especially when combined with conservation and efficiency measures to bring wasteful U.S. consumption down to levels of other first-world countries that use half as much energy per capita).
Add to that a low Australian dollar, excellent food and wine, friendly and easy-going people who do not sneer at tourists, because they travel themselves, first-world health and safety standards and a low crime rate, and the place sounds irresistible.
Those are rigorously first-world cities.
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In 1995 he took the reins of Sri Lanka coach and a year later he took the side to their first-ever World Cup after a seven-wicket victory over Australia.
Solberg won his first-ever world rally in Wales last year and was in control from the first morning.
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This approach was seconded, in its geographic absolutism, by other pre-First World War space-history explanations.
The first real-world application could be in health care, according to Michael J.
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